Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX

Exactly

I have faith in Machu's ass

Once all is said and done, what lesson will Machu take away from all this? Will she even live to take a lesson away from her actions in the first place?

Are AUs still banned here like in last thread?

shinseiki.blog/2025/04/17/enokido-gqux-1/
— How did you approach Machu, Nyaan and Shuji’s characters when writing the script?

Machu is sort of a textbook protagonist, so it went relatively smoothly with her. In the first episode, she’s introduced as a regular girl living her simple, daily life, and then, all of a sudden, she sneaks inside of a Mobile Suit. It might seem like she’s a bit reckless and eccentric… but in my interpretation, the most unique trait of Machu’s personality is that she doesn’t have prejudices.

— She doesn’t have prejudices?

Side 6 is basically a normal, everyday world, somewhat resembling present day Japan. But there’s an area inside the colony where immigrants —both legal and illegal— and refugees live, people who are relatively discriminated against within the colony. Even in a society with such a dark side, Machu doesn’t hold any prejudice towards the refugees and the illegal immigrants there. Whether that’s because she fundamentally lacks the concept of prejudice, or because she simply doesn’t want to acknowledge it, even I am not totally sure.
If a normal girl were to come in contact with a smuggler of illegal Installer Keys like Nyaan, she’d probably report her to the police immediately. But not Machu, she’d just go ask for the “compensation for her broken smartphone” or something. This is to say, Machu basically considers Nyaan to be her equal. In this sense, inside that Side 6, she’s certainly a peculiar girl.

— I see.

It’s exactly because Machu sees Nyaan as her equal that the moment she notices the bruise on Nyaan’s face left by the military police, she feels so angry inside. She’s thinking, “Why is the police beating up a girl about the same age as me!?”. And then, she gets even angrier at Nyaan’s attitude of it being only natural that they’re being violent against someone like her. Machu’s inner anger reached its limit when the military police Mobile Suits started to arbitrarily destroy the buildings in the refugee settlements, with the excuse that “they’re illegal anyways”. It’s at that point that she decides to sneak in the Mobile Suit —it was a manifestation of all the anger she was bottling up deep inside herself.
Actually, it’s very similar to the anger Amuro felt in the first episode of “Mobile Suit Gundam” [機動戦士ガンダム, 1979], when he saw Fraw Bow’s family getting bombed. That’s why I believe I was able to get Machu to step into the Mobile Suit in the proper, traditional way of a Gundam protagonist.

— So, she might not be hot-tempered, but in terms of sense of justice…

She has one. Perhaps, that sensation is something very closely linked to the abilities of Newtypes.

— Writing the dialogues is a big part of the scriptwriter’s job, after all.

Right. Gundam as a series doesn’t have many characters with signature lines or catchphrases, but I thought it would be better for Shuji to have one; that’s when I came up with his “…that’s what the Gundam is saying” line. Basically, I interpreted the Director’s order that “he doesn’t talk much” as “he doesn’t express his own thoughts much”. So, using the “that’s what the Gundam is saying” line, it’s not Shuji who’s talking, but the Gundam. And Shuji comes across as a character who doesn’t speak all that much.
And then of course, I also hoped that the line would stick with the viewers and catch on (laughs)

I shoud've applied to become a member of the audit bureau like my mom and none of this would have ever happened

shinseiki.blog/2025/04/16/tsurumaki-gquuuuuux-1/
— The place where the protagonists, Machu and the others live, Izuma Colony, is an interesting setting. Starting from the name itself, it has a Japanese flavor to it, and overall it somewhat resembles modern day Japan.

There are two reasons why I decided on such a setting. The first one is that I wanted to use Japanese language. At the time of “Top wo Nerae 2!” [Gunbuster 2: Diebuster (トップをねらえ2！DIEBUSTER), 2004, it was prohibited to show (Japanese) characters and writings, and in terms of direction, it was a nightmare to work around it (wry smile). I thought that using written characters would have made it so much easier to express many different things.
The other reason is, if you watch any Universal Century episode up until now, it’s clear that English is the official language. However, there are a few colonies, like Moon Moon or the Texas Colony for example, rooted in a special and distinctive culture of their own. So, I thought it would be fine if there was a colony whose customs were heavily influenced by Japanese ones. Side 6 from the first “Mobile Suit Gundam” was originally designed as a caricature of Japan. I thought it would be okay if there was a colony with many residents of Japanese origin.

— And what about the time setting?

To tell the truth, I wanted Machu and the others to be born after the end of the war; I thought they would give off a stronger impression of being a “new generation” that way. But in the end, things happened and we decided on UC 0085 as the time setting.

— I find that “I wanted Machu and the others to be born after the end of the war” really interesting. What are your thoughts and feelings on dealing with a post-war scenario?

Rather than a post-war, I’d say it’s a Cold War. When I was a kid, we were right in the mist of the Cold War; the US and the USSR never fought each other directly, but it felt like the next war could break out at any moment. There were novels or movies about the USSR army suddenly landing on our territory and turning Japan into a battlefield, and back then, it didn’t feel all that unrealistic.
When we decided on UC 0085 as the time setting for GQuuuuuuX, a certain member of the staff pointed out that “You’re doing Gundam but you’re not writing about war?”. All the previous Gundam up until now have portrayed a war of some sort, be it a full-scale war between different powers, or a factional struggle within the military, almost like a civil war. So I thought that writing about a “Cold War” would have worked as well. I thought that by depicting the feelings I’ve experienced under the Cold War, I could convey a unique atmosphere unlike that of any other Gundam before.

— It’s true that, despite not being directly at war, there’s palpable tension between the two factions, and the atmosphere in the colony turns really tense just by the arrival of a battleship like the Sodon. It really gives the impression of a Cold War. Those under 40 today only became aware of the world after the Cold War was already over, so they don’t know what that atmosphere felt like.

adults suck

Worried the writers don't realize Machu needs a bare ass spanking

she's gonna overdose on kirakira and get braindead veggie end

That’s right. I think (Yoshiyuki) Tomino-san’s generation is the last to have known the experience of war throughout their childhood. My generation, of course, didn’t experience actual war, but we do understand the feelings of the Cold War. Naturally, conveying those sensations to the current, young generation is very difficult, but in today’s reality as well war has broken out in Ukraine, and conflicts and civil wars continue unabated in the Middle East. It’s not outside the realm of possibility for the current situation to escalate in a world-wide conflict. I believe that, to some extent, the prospect of a “future war” between nations has unfortunately become a reality among the young people of today.
That’s something that hasn’t been felt for about 30 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, isn’t it?

— Indeed, I understand the feeling that the thread of terrorism has taken us back to the terror of the Cold War.
I think a world where a space colony, while certainly not depriving the characters of their freedom, still somewhat feels like a claustrophobic place that’s tying them down, is reminiscent of your previous works…

Well, that’s the influence of what I felt like when I was young. I grew up in the middle of the rice fields in Niigata, and even though the horizon stretched out in all directions, it still somehow felt “narrow”. Of course, if I walked all the way past the mountain, I’d eventually reach Tokyo, but that wasn’t actually feasible, was it? I felt like I was trapped inside my small, familiar garden, and I wondered, “Am I going to spend my whole life in this place?”. I depicted that fear in “FLCL” [フリクリ, 2000], as well as in this work.
It’s not like Machu thinks that “A space colony is too narrow, I hate it”, but she feels like “The world has to be much more vast, more free…”. She could, in principle, go to other nearby colonies, but in reality, she doesn’t. She lacks the freedom to say “whenever I want to go, I can do it in an instant!”; that’s especially true for children. I’m depicting the same things I myself felt in the past.

— So, that’s really a theme you want to focus on in the works you direct?

It’s rather because I want young people to watch my works. When I ponder what kind of feelings the youth of today would actually feel, I think it has to be something similar to the sense of confinement, or the fear and the anxiety about the future I too felt back then.

— Machu being bothered that the gravity inside a space colony isn’t real is too an extension of those feelings?

That in particular incorporates another slightly different thematic. Is the Red Gundam that Shuji pilots the real one? Are Newtypes and their abilities real to begin with? Is the alternative world of GQuuuuuuX itself real at all?
This idea of whether something is “real or not” is present in many ways within the story, and I believe it might be another element especially interesting for the young viewers.

needs a suit almost ten years more advanced to beat some teenagers

Give me the Unit 4 with that beautiful gatling and it'll get it done under 4 minutes

Gquuux has motivated to buy a Perfect Grade after countless of HGs, one MG, and one RG.

Where THE FUCK is ramba ral?

Only the homosexual one

Only the homosexual one

That’s most AUs besides G, Wing, and Seed though…

wing

not homosexual

??????

What's the appeal of this boy type?

Forgot pic

I'm convinced I have every deux fanart in existence saved in my computer and I dare anyone to post a deux picture I don't have yet

Wing

Homosexual

Middle Aged Millenial women’s headcanons don’t count.

There is no appeal. Only male writers create boys who are loyal and subservient to women. They don't realize that's not what real women want hence the reason why the love interest in shoujo manga is a manipulative, evil bastard 90% of the time. They prefer bad boys or boys they can fix.

I'm opening up paint right now to make a Deuxdle that I will save but never upload so that it's impossible for you to collect every fanart in existence

nyaan was especially cute last ep

Her design is the only one I find attractive. The rest look like retarded pokemon characters.

Want to use Japanese language

Fill it with like 5 other languages anyways

But Nyaan is a pokemon character as well.

People like their sticks.

Her embarrassment over her kira kira outburst was cute but I also hope she accepts that side of herself to become even cuter

They're deliberately portraying a multicultural mosaic that reflects the reality of Japan and Asia at large including the influence of colonialism in another nod toward its treatment of contemporary issues like refugee crises and immigration lol

Machu vs Deux in the upcomming episode

I could beat all of them in the S Gundam at the same time

This felt like the right art work for the series and thread

The AEUG is a work of fiction.

Zeta era newtypes had way more rizz than GQuX. Bet we won't even get a single kiss this time around.

One time I fucked this south east asian girl that looked like Nyan. She even gave me the same disappointed stare when we were done.

He never even fucked her. Kira Yamato is the only Gundam protagonist that got laid on screen.

Did Reco have a kiss? Gundam hasn't had one since IBO........Movies aside

Pic related is what Shuji would be like if the girls kissed him.

Does Amuro kissing anyone on 0079? I don't even remember if Lalah and Char kiss was on the tv series or just the movie.

Kira actually got laid yet these lames are talking about a kiss. lololol

Amuro and Char were fucking in Zeta.

In the movies Nug actually fucks Bellri.

The fuck, where is this from